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<p><a href="/name/Alistair%20Wall">Alistair Wall</a> (2d Wanstead) ended top of the list of 34 players who attended the largest Cheshire Tournament (not counting the <a href="http://www.britgo.org.uk/results/2009/british.html">2009 British Open</a>). He beat the previous winner, Mark Elliot (1d Manchester), in the last round.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Player_Card.php?&amp;key=15374260">James Brownrigg</a> (5k Chester) was the only other player on three wins, in this now single-section event.</p>
<p>An enthusiastic and well-behaved party of lads from <a href="http://www.cheadlehulmeschool.co.uk/podium/default.aspx?t=101286">Cheadle Hulme School</a> did well, all winning at least one game, despite this being - for most of them - their first tournament: <a href="http://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Player_Card.php?&amp;key=17313769">Alex Benton</a> (12k) was the best junior and Daniel Gascoyne (27k) was the best novice. Jack Nolan won the most games in the 13x13 side-event (with 8) and Yusuf Ahmed, teacher Zaheer's son, played the most games (14).</p>
<p>The players thanked the co-hosts - <a href="http://www.europeangodatabase.eu/EGD/Player_Card.php?&amp;key=10425987">Tony Pitchford</a> and <a href="http://www.kisekigo.com/">Tony Atkins</a>- for successfully organising the event. The organisers were pleased that the BGA Book-seller <a href="/people/huysher">Roger Huyshe</a> came, bringing a good stock of books.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2015/cheshire">Results</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/5095#commentsUK Tournament ReportSat, 07 Feb 2015 23:56:55 +0000Tony Atkins5095 at http://britgo.orgCharles Hibbert wins his First Tournamenthttp://britgo.org/node/5082
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<p><a href="/files/images/maidenhead15.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/files/images/maidenhead15-s.jpg" class="floatright" title="Charles Hibbert vs Hui Zhang" height="300"></a></p>
<p>Charles Hibbert from London entered Maidenhead-Hitachi Tournament as his first ever tournament.
Having achieved 3d on both KGS and IGS, he entered at 2 dan and went on to win all three games
to claim the Maidenhead title.</p>
<p>Also winning three games, and in second and third place, were Alistair Wall (1d Wanstead)
and Jitka Bartova (1d Praha). As usual all players winning three or two games got a prize from
the eclectic selection on the prize table or, this year, a mystery envelope. Those on three were:
France Ellul (6k Maidenhead) and Fred Holroyd (8k Milton Keynes). 55 players took part.</p>
<p>Both Wanstead and Leamington teams won 9 games out of 16 to get the team prizes of sweets
and chocolate. Charlotte Bexfield and Edmund Smith both won 4 games in the 13x13 side event.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2015/maidenhead">Results</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/5082#commentsUK Tournament ReportSat, 24 Jan 2015 20:54:58 +0000Tony Atkins5082 at http://britgo.orgChi-Min Oh wins the London Openhttp://britgo.org/tournaments/logc/report2014
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<p>The 41st London Open Go Congress took place at International Students House at the end of December 2014. As well as the main seven-round tournament, there were Pair Go, Doubles, Lightning and Rengo side events, and the tournament culminated in 40 participants attending a New Year's Eve Dinner.
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The main tournament was won by Chi-Min Oh (7d, Durham, UK) on seven wins, and prizes sponsored by the British Go Association were also awarded to YoungSam Kim (7d, BIBA, Korea) coming second with six wins, Mateusz Surma (7d, Dzimierz, Poland) coming third with five wins and Xiao Ma (5d, Nuremberg, Germany) coming in fourth with four wins.</p>
<p>The David Ward Cup was awarded for the first time, in memory of long-standing UK player David Ward who sadly died late in 2013. It was donated by his widow, Helen Ward, and presented by professional Hajin Lee from Korea to Matthew Cocke, who was the highest-placed UK player in the tournament on three wins above the bar.</p>
<p>Prizes were awarded, by sponsorship from the Central London Go Club, to the two best-placed players who started below the bar; these went to Mikko Siukola (4d, Yligo, Finland) who came in eighth overall, and Andrew Kay (4d, Birmingham, UK) who came in 15th overall.</p>
<p>A prize sponsored by the City of London Go Club was awarded to the best-placed player who had started as a double-digit kyu player by European Ranking; this was won by Gudrun Breitenbauch (11k, Hamburg-Harburg, Germany).
Sponsorship for the event was also provided by the Nippon Club and the Korean Amateur Baduk Association.</p>
<p>Certificates were awarded to Johannes Siven (3k, Central London, UK) on six wins and to those on four and five wins.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/london">Open Results</a></p>
<p>The thirty-player Lightning tournament was won by Chi-Min Oh (7d, Durham, UK), with second prize to Zebin Du (5d, China).</p>
<p>The Pair Go tournament was won by Chi-Min Oh (7d, Durham, UK) and Lova Wåhlin (2k, Stockholm, Sweden), with second prize to Hajin Lee (3p) and Benjamin Teuber (6d, Hamburg-Harburg, Germany).</p>
<p>The Doubles section was won by Jitka Bartova (1d, Prague, Czech Republic) and Ngoc-Trang Cao (2d, 67se, France).</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/londonpair">Pair Go Results</a></p>
<p>The New Year's Eve Rengo, before the meal at Ask and the casual games session, was won
by Bruno Poltronieri, Su Yang and Lova Wåhlin.</p>
http://britgo.org/tournaments/logc/report2014#commentsUK Tournament ReportWed, 31 Dec 2014 15:45:37 +0000jennyradcliffe5059 at http://britgo.orgLondon Open Day 2http://britgo.org/node/5056
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<p><a href="/files/london/london14f.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/files/london/london14f-t.jpg" title="Fan Hui 4p Teaching Session" height="200"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="/files/london/london14c.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/files/london/london14c-t.jpg" title="Dongeun Choi 1p game analysis" height="200"></a></p>
<p>Day two of the London Open, Monday 29th December, saw rounds three and four of the Open.
At the top in round three Benjamin Teuber lost to Mateusz Surma and Young-Sam Kim lost
to Chi-Min Oh. So the two on four wins faced off in round four; Oh beat Surma to take a clear lead.
At the end of the day the other players on four wins were: Kalle Timperi 1k, Lova Wåhlin 2k, Johannes Siven 3k, Alberto Adriasola 4k and Jannik Gram 5k.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/london">Results</a></p>
<p>The three pros present were busily anaylsing games at the end of each round and in the early evening Miss Choi gave a lecture for kyu players and Fan Hui reviewed a game with the stronger players.</p>
<p>In the evening the Pair Go took place with 16 pairs, icluding three in the Doubles Section.
The winners of the Pair Go were Lova Wåhlin and Chi-Min Oh; second were Hajin Lee and Benjamin Teuber. First in the Doubles section were Jitka Bartova and Ngoc-Trang Cao.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/londonpair">Pair Go Results</a></p>
<p><a href="/image/tid/77">Pair Go Gallery</a></p>
<p><a href="/files/london/london14h.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/files/london/london14h-t.jpg" title="Hajin Lee 3p game anaylsis" height="200"></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="/files/london/london14p.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/files/london/london14p-t.jpg" title="Pair Go Final" height="200"></a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/5056#commentsUK Tournament ReportTue, 30 Dec 2014 12:12:15 +0000Tony Atkins5056 at http://britgo.orgLondon Open Day 1http://britgo.org/node/5046
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<p>The 2014 London Open got under way 15 minutes late on Sunday 28th December after a repairing.
108 players in all are expected, with 101 already playing. As usual a large number of players
are from outside the UK, with many strong Chinese players as well as players from several
European countries.</p>
<p>Also present are three professionals: Fan Hui from France, Dongeun Choi from Korea and Hajin Lee, the IGF Secretary.</p>
<p><a href="/files/london/london14b.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/files/london/london14b-t.jpg" class="floatright" title="Main Hall Round 1 Action" height="150"></a></p>
<p>Again the venue is ISH at the top of Great Portland Street convenient for seeing London and providing accommodation for those staying over.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/london">Results</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/5046#commentsUK Tournament ReportSun, 28 Dec 2014 22:50:29 +0000Tony Atkins5046 at http://britgo.orgAndrew Kay is Top Teacher in South Londonhttp://britgo.org/node/5031
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<p><a href="/files/images/slondon14.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/files/images/slondon14-t.jpg" class="floatright" title="Andrew Kay Top Teacher at South London" height="300"></a></p>
<p>The second South London kyu players' teaching day and tournament was again at the Croydon Quaker Meeting House. Nineteen students were taught in the morning by four teachers - Andrew Kay, Alex Rix, Tim Hunt and Alison Bexfield. In the afternoon there was a three round tournament.</p>
<p>In the teachers' section the teachers all played each other, in a round-robin tournament, with all games even. In the students' tournament all games were played with handicaps equal to grade difference where appropriate.</p>
<p>Andrew Kay won the teachers' tournament with three wins; he received a prize of a bag of delicious gingerbread men from the organiser's excellent local cake shop.</p>
<p>In the student section, prizes of useful Go books went to Chris Volk (1k) and Colin Maclennan (9k) for winning three games, and to Ben Clark (14k), Charlotte Bexfield (11k) and Richard Wheeldon (4k) for winning two. Robin Patterson (18k) got the fighting spirit prize for losing all his games at his first tournament.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/southlondon">Results</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/5031#commentsUK Tournament ReportSat, 06 Dec 2014 21:27:26 +0000Tony Atkins5031 at http://britgo.orgLocal Winner at Warwickhttp://britgo.org/node/5022
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<p><a href="/files/images/warwick14.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/files/images/warwick14t.jpg" class="floatright" title="Philip Leung Winner of Coventry Tournament" height="300"></a></p>
<p>For a second year running the Coventry Tournament had a local winner. As the previous winner,
Bruno Poltronieri, concentrated on organising, it was his University of Warwick club mate Philip Leung (5d) who won this time. He was rewarded with a bottle of port and a box of Maltesers. Second was Wu Ruizhu (5d) also from Warwick and third was Alison Bexfield from Letchworth. Those on 3/3 also got prizes:
Ben Riddell (2k Cheltenham), Andre Cockburn (7k Nottingham), John Capper (12k Nottingham) and
Christopher Manser (17k Warwick). 32 players took part.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/coventry">Results</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/5022#commentsUK Tournament ReportSat, 29 Nov 2014 22:38:55 +0000Tony Atkins5022 at http://britgo.orgAndrew Kay Holds British Championshiphttp://britgo.org/node/5021
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<p>Congratulations to Andrew Kay who defeated Alex Kent today to retain the British Championship
by three games to nil.</p>
<p>A copy of the game is available, with comments from Matthew Macfadyen 6d.</p>
<p>Thanks to Nick Wedd for hosting, and to all others involved.</p>
<p>Toby Manning</p>
<p><a href="/files/bchamp/2014/game_three_2014_bgarelay.sgf" >Game Three Relay</a> raw record including unmoderated comments. <br>
<a href="/files/bchamp/2014/game_three_2014_macfadyen.sgf" >Game Three Review</a> with comments by Matthew Macfadyen 6d.</p>
http://britgo.org/node/5021#commentsUK Tournament ReportSat, 29 Nov 2014 21:47:35 +0000Tony Atkins5021 at http://britgo.orgMatthew Cocke Regains Three Peaks Titlehttp://britgo.org/node/5010
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<p>After a year gap Matthew Cocke regained the Three Peaks title. He won all five games,
at the event at the Commodore Inn in Grange-over-Sands, to take the title for the fifth time.
Winning four games were Roger Huyshe (4k Shropshire) and David Cantrell (6k South London).
31 players, including organiser Bob Bagot, took part.</p>
<p>A new venture this year was a team event with a small engraved toast rack as the prize. This was
kindly donated by Graham Blackmore (one of the regulars). The first winners were a team from
Shropshire -The Wollerton Wanderers - Brian Timmins, Kath Timmins and Roger Huyshe.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/threepeaks">Results</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/5010#commentsUK Tournament ReportMon, 17 Nov 2014 10:31:27 +0000Tony Atkins5010 at http://britgo.orgFun and Games at Letchworth Rapid Playhttp://britgo.org/node/5001
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<p><a href="/files/images/letchworth14a.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/files/images/letchworth14a-s.jpg" class="floatright" title="Paul Smith losing to Tim Hunt" height="300"></a></p>
<p>Organiser Alison Bexfield wished that all the 26 players at the first Letchworth Rapid Play had fun,
and the thirty minute time limits saw most games ending in fun battles and not reaching their
natural end. The venue was the Central Methodist Church in Letchworth Garden City which allowed
the main group of players to be in the hall, but also a group of junior novices to be able to play 13x13
games in a side room.</p>
<p>Prizes were awarded by sections. The Open section winner was Tim Hunt (2d Milton Keynes) with six
wins. Major Section (3k-9k) was won by Ben Ellis (3k Milton Keynes) randomly picked from the group on two wins by his daughter Sophie. Minor Section (10k-20k) winner was John Collins (10k St Albans).
Junior Section winner was Melchior Chui (9k Cambridge), beating local girl Charlotte Bexfield (10k) in
a last round re-match.</p>
<p>The Novices Tournament was won Greg Briscoe from Cambridge; he beat Josh Terry from Bungay
in the final, having drawn with him earlier. All other juniors went away with small prizes, including
best improved Immy and best puzzle solver Iwan.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/letchworth">Results</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/5001#commentsUK Tournament ReportSun, 09 Nov 2014 15:31:43 +0000Tony Atkins5001 at http://britgo.orgNortherners prevail at the Wessexhttp://britgo.org/node/4822
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The 45th Wessex Tournament was held at St Mark’s Community Centre once
again, as usual taking place on the day the clocks go back. 34 players
competed for trophies.</p>
<p>Tongzhou Cai, a 3-dan student from Glasgow, travelled furthest and took
victory as overall winner. Other winners were Martin Harvey (5k) and Dick
Norton (8k), both from Manchester. Saving face for the southerners was
Peter Collins (2k, Bristol). All these four won three games.</p>
<p>Thanks go to the organisers, including Ian Sharpe and David King.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/wessex">Results</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/4822#commentsUK Tournament ReportTue, 28 Oct 2014 09:31:38 +0000Jon Diamond4822 at http://britgo.orgPaul Smith wins British Small Board Championshiphttp://britgo.org/node/4815
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<P>There were 12 players in this year's tournament, held in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_College,_Cambridge">Robinson College</a> in Cambridge.
As usual there were some excellent cakes.</P>
<P>The overall winner was determined by even games with double elimination. Most other games were handicap games. Games played with handicaps are shown in red. A couple of games in the first round were affected by dodgy clocks, but thankfully nobody complained too much and the problem was then sorted with the help of Andrew's phone.</P>
<P>Paul Smith (pictured) was the organiser, and also winner for the second time. He celebrated by going to watch the American singer-songwriter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Friedman">Dean Friedman</a>
performing in St Ives.</P>
<P>The junior winner was Melchior Chui. There were also prizes for the other juniors who scored three or more wins; they were Kelda Smith and Claudia Bazyk.
The fighting spirit prize went to Mo Buckley.</P>
<P>Thanks to Ryutaro Ikeda and the Cambridge University Go Society for their help in organising this event.</P></p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/small">Results</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/4815#commentsUK Tournament ReportTue, 21 Oct 2014 08:29:10 +0000Jon Diamond4815 at http://britgo.orgJon Diamond Regains East Midlandshttp://britgo.org/node/4808
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Jon Diamond seems to only win the East Midlands in even years, so having won in 2010
and 2012, he was back as champion in 2014. He was one of several BGA council members
in the Leicester area for the weekend, as there was a council meeting on the Sunday.</p>
<p>The only other player on three wins was Edwina Lee (Maidenhead).</p>
<p>32 players took part.</p>
<p>As the main organiser fell ill, the full results were delayed.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/eastmidlands">Results</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/4808#commentsUK Tournament ReportMon, 13 Oct 2014 14:32:50 +0000Tony Atkins4808 at http://britgo.orgAndrew Kay also wins Second Gamehttp://britgo.org/node/4807
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<p>Game 2 of the best of five title match for the British Championship was played on Sunday 12th October in Milton Keynes, the day after game 1.</p>
<p>Current champion Andrew Kay played white against Alex Kent and won by resignation at about
15:30 to give him a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five match.</p>
<p><a href="/files/bchamp/2014/game_two_2014_bgarelay.sgf">The game</a> was again broadcast in the British Room of KGS (gokgs.com) by BGAadmin.</p>
<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/102217386485924571853/albums/6069606814092954849#photos/102217386485924571853/albums/6069606814092954849">Photos</a></p>
<p><a href="/bchamp">Details of British Go Championship</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/4807#commentsUK Tournament ReportSun, 12 Oct 2014 14:44:40 +0000Tony Atkins4807 at http://britgo.orgAndrew Kay wins First Game in Title Matchhttp://britgo.org/node/4806
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<p><a href="/files/images/bchamp2014a.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/files/images/bchamp2014a-s.jpg" class="floatright" title="Game 1: Andrew Kay v Alex Kent with ref Alex Rix (photo: Tim Hunt)">
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<p>Game 1 of the best of five title match for the British Championship was played on Saturday 11th October in Milton Keynes. Current champion Andrew Kay from Birmingham played black against Alex Kent from Chepstow, starting at 10:00 with a break for lunch (at a ramen restaurant).</p>
<p><a href="/files/bchamp/2014/game_one_2014_bgarelay.sgf">The game</a> was broadcast in the British Room of KGS (gokgs.com). Andrew won by resignation at about 15:30</p>
<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/102217386485924571853/albums/6069606814092954849#photos/102217386485924571853/albums/6069606814092954849">Photos</a></p>
<p><a href="/bchamp">Details of British Go Championship</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/4806#commentsUK Tournament ReportSat, 11 Oct 2014 14:39:36 +0000Tony Atkins4806 at http://britgo.orgNorth London win London Teams Againhttp://britgo.org/node/4803
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<p><a href="/files/images/lita14.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/files/images/lita14-s.jpg" class="floatright" title="North London receive trophy from Joathan Turner (photo: Kiyohiko Tanaka")></a></p>
<p>The autumn edition of the London International Teams stayed at the Melton Mowbray pub and again on a Saturday, but this time the teams had five players.</p>
<p>A North London Go Club player raised a team of players from around London to defend the title.
They managed to win all three matches, by three boards to two, to retain the trophy.</p>
<p>The other three teams each won a match and the order on games won was second Wanstead,
third Nippon and fourth SLGC from South London.</p>
<p>As usual all players won a prize but those especially noted for winning all three games were
Aja Huang (6d), Shunsuke Sakairi (3d) and Roger Daniel (5k).</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/lita">Results</a></p>
<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/100229840018669961152/albums/6066501664972933089?authkey=CIPT3tirj56SrQE">Tanaka's Photos</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/4803#commentsUK Tournament ReportMon, 06 Oct 2014 10:06:43 +0000Tony Atkins4803 at http://britgo.orgVisiting Jitka has a Perfect Weekend Breakhttp://britgo.org/node/4799
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<p><a href="/files/images/swindon14.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/files/images/swindon14-s.jpg" class="floatright" title="Richard v Jitka in the final" width="400"></a></p>
<p>Jitka Bartova (1d) was visiting the UK from Prague for a weekend with her friend Ngoc-Trang Cao
who is a current member of Leamington Club. Luckily John Green could give them both a lift
to the Swindon Tournament, so Jitka could promote the 2015 European Go Congress in Liberec and also win the tournament, to make a perfect weekend away.</p>
<p>Simon Shiu had stopped Ngoc-Trang from winning another event in round one, but Simon lost
to Jitka in round two. This lead to a final-round clash with Bristol's Richard Hunter (2d), the only
other top player on two wins. The game was the last to finish and ended equal on the board,
but Jitka held the white stones to win by the komi. Her win, plus two wins by her friend
and two wins by her driver, meant that Leamington was the best club.</p>
<p>Of the 36 players, others winning all three games were Patrick Batty (5k South London), Malcolm Walker (7k) and Tony Finding (9k Bristol). Malcolm also topped the 13x13 table, jointly with Jil Segerman.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/swindon">Results</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/4799#commentsUK Tournament ReportSun, 28 Sep 2014 20:34:34 +0000Tony Atkins4799 at http://britgo.orgBruno wins in the Countrysidehttp://britgo.org/node/4794
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<p>The Shropshire Tournament took place in the countryside again. Numbers were
somewhat down, with several cancellations on health grounds, but there was
more competition this year at the top end. The overall winner was Bruno
Poltronieri (3d) with Alistair Wall (2d) in second place. Jonathan Green (4k) also
scored three wins.</p>
<p>The side event was a quiz to mark up, at leisure between rounds, the value
of a yose move in 16 positions on boards set out on the bar. As it is not
realistic to aim for perfect answers, the scoring process removed one mark
for each point in error. While the dan players were consistently in the
right ballpark, it was striking to see by how much even good SDK players
underestimated the value of moves. This led to a lively half-hour review
and theory session. The winning performance was from Bruno Poltronieri and
Brent Cutts received a prize for the best grade-adjusted performance.
Somebody received a wooden spoon prize of a compulsory yose book.</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/shropshire">Results</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/4794#commentsUK Tournament ReportMon, 22 Sep 2014 11:56:24 +0000Tony Atkins4794 at http://britgo.orgCornish Trophies Shared Between Locals and Visitorshttp://britgo.org/node/4783
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<p><a href="/files/images/cornwall14.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="/files/images/cornwall14-s.jpg" class="floatright" title="Chris Volk vs. Paul Massey"></a></p>
<p>The first of the three events during a very sunny weekend in Penzance was a teaching session on the Saturday morning. Toby Manning led a review of a pro game
and set the students a yose problem, whilst Tony Atkins reviewed the status of the J-Group based on the lyrics of a Go song by Neil Symes.</p>
<p>The first of the tournaments, on the Saturday afternoon, saw 20 players taking part. The rapid-play Handicap Tournament was won by local player Paul Massey (1k) who beat visitor Chris Volk (1k) in the final. Steve Ashton (14k Devon) was the lowest graded player to win 3 out of 4. <a href="/results/2014/cornlight">Results</a></p>
<p>On the Sunday the number of players rose to 22. The Open was played as usual over three rounds and the venue, The Queen's Hotel, provided an excellent buffet lunch as ever. Winning the Devon and Cornwall Go Stone trophy this year was Toby Manning (2d), the fourth time he has done so. He beat defending champion, and the local event organiser, John Culmer (1k) in the final. Elinor Brooks (8k) won her first two games and then
lost by half a point in her last game, a handicap one. She and all others named won the usual wooden Go stone to keep. <a href="/results/2014/cornwall">Results</a></p>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.hkbea.com/html/en/index.html">Bank of East Asia (BEA)</a> generously provided the central Manchester venue for the 2014 Northern. The tournament-winner was Ngoc-Trang Cao (1d), from France, enjoying a purple patch after her win in Belfast just a few days beforehand. The runner-up was also female, Ewa Mos (1d) from Poland who lives here and is a regular attendee at Manchester Go Club. 'Girl Power' thus ruled the roost, with three male players losing out on SOS.</p>
<p>Also winning prizes were Tony Pitchford (10k Chester) for 2.5 wins, and the organiser and club secretary Chris Kirkham (3k Manchester) for 3 wins.</p>
<p>The reduced entry fee probably was a major cause for the increase in numbers to 34, and substantial sponsorship of the prize fund by <a href="http://samproperties.co.uk/wp/">Sam Properties</a> led to seven of these players being dans - a significantly better proportion than in recent Northerns. Thanks go to local player Peter Yim for arranging such a valuable boost to the event (one of the BGA's most longstanding tournaments, run continuously since 1975).</p>
<p><a href="/results/2014/northern">Results</a></p>
http://britgo.org/node/4777#commentsUK Tournament ReportMon, 08 Sep 2014 09:15:54 +0000Tony Atkins4777 at http://britgo.org